Chapter 25: Chapter 25: Level 36 Spirit Elder
Three years later!
"Brother Gazi... Brother Tian."
Tang San, out of habit, called out, but seeing the brick in Qin Tian hand, he quickly changed his tone.
Three years had passed, and Tang San was now at Level 36 as a Spirit Elder.
At only nine and a half years old, he stood 1.75 meters tall, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes. His face was handsome, with fair skin, truly an outstanding young man.
Qin Tian, the same age as Tang San, was already 1.83 meters tall. with a wide back and strong waist, his face stern and heroic, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, his skin a healthy wheat color.
Now, Qin Tian had also reached Level 36 as a Spirit Elder. Without the Mysterious Heaven Skill, achieving this level of cultivation was already akin to cheating.
The three of them had broken through to Spirit Elder level a year and a half ago, and Master had taken time off to accompany them on a trip to the Star Dou Forest, where high-level soul beasts roamed.
Of course, Master waited outside while Qin Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu teamed up. With Qin Tian, a humanoid soul beast, in their ranks, they easily completed their tasks.
Tang San, indeed the "child of the world," had absorbed the soul ring of a 5,000-year-old Man-faced Demon Spider. After a near-death experience, his Blue Silver Grass martial soul mutated, awakening some aspects of the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
He gained the skill, Web Binding, from it.
Due to the power of the 5,000-year-old Man-faced Demon Spider, the skills were much stronger than in the original plot.
Additionally, he gained an external soul bone—spider legs grew out again.
Qin Tian thought that the situation arose due to Tang San special physique, along with the effects of Mysterious Heaven Skill.
As for Qin Tian, during his breakthrough, he had killed a 10,000-year-old soul beast and absorbed its soul ring without any issues, unlike Tang San who received an external soul bone.
The beast Qin Tian killed with his Bronze Coffin martial soul was a 10,000-year-old Devil Tree.
The Devil Tree, a plant-type soul beast, was studied by Master, who found that killing it could yield the soul skill "Extension," which enhanced size.
He advised Qin Tian to choose either of the two skills, as they were both compatible with his martial soul's characteristics.
For instance, the last time Qin Tian obtained the Gravitational skill, it greatly enhanced the brick's attack power.
Tang San and Xiao Wu were initially worried that Qin Tian didn't acquire the complete Gravity Ring, but when they saw him unaffected by it, they relaxed.
They had no idea that Qin Tian was a monster. Unlike others, when he absorbed a soul ring, he didn't just take the life essence—he could absorb the soul beast's abilities as well.
For example, the Devil Tree, which attracted soul beasts with its floral scent, was consumed by Qin Tian. He pretended to be drawn to the scent and approached, only to summon the Bronze Coffin and smash it down.
Without any surprise, once Qin Tian broke through to Spirit Elder, the coffin became even heavier, likely enough to crush even a 100,000-year-old Devil Tree.
Crack!
The Devil Tree was smashed into bits, its life essence devoured by the Bronze Coffin.
The soul ring underwent a dramatic transformation in Qin Tian hands, a life-and-death metamorphosis, and was successfully absorbed.
After every absorption, Qin Tian reminded himself not to push so hard next time.
But when it came time to select a soul ring again, he couldn't resist pushing himself.
That's just how people are!
Qin Tian successfully obtained two skills from the Devil Tree: Extension and Gigantification.
Extension allowed him to elongate his brick into a long weapon, a special soul skill tailored to him by Master.
After using it, Qin Tian found it quite satisfying.
Gigantification was the Devil Tree's original skill, used to scare away herbivorous soul beasts. When activated, it could enlarge the body—turning a small tree into a large one, increasing strength by three times. It wasn't too exaggerated.
Master favored this skill because if Qin Tian threw the brick, it would suddenly enlarge, making it an excellent soul skill.
Qin Tian realized that Master was actually quite cunning.
Master originally thought it was lucky that Qin Tian could gain any skill from the Devil Tree.
After all, the Devil Tree had other skills like Bewitchment and Devil's Voice.
But Qin Tian ended up learning the two most suitable skills: Extension and Gigantification.
Additionally!
Qin Tian had also comprehended the Devil Tree's complete skill set.
Extension: Allows him to extend his legs and arms.Law of Heaven and Earth: Named by Qin Tian himself, it was originally Gigantification. It doubles his size and triples his strength.
So far, Qin Tian physical strength was comparable to a 5,000-year-old soul beast. His humanoid soul beast status was well-deserved.
Also, Qin Tian first soul ring had indeed evolved.
His original 900-year-old yellow soul ring had transformed into a purple one, becoming a 1,000-year soul ring.
Normally, this would be quite an unusual phenomenon, and Qin Tian had planned to mask it with illusion-type soul skills.
However, Master speculated that it was due to Qin Tian repeated absorption of the Shock Bear's soul rings, causing some mutation in a positive direction.
Everything seemed to be progressing in a positive direction, and Qin Tian was confident that by the time he was twelve, he would definitely become a Spirit Master.
It was so easy!
Qin Tian journey in Douluo World was going smoothly. He had practically dragged Tang San and Xiao Wu along for the ride.
Xiao Wu, with her extraordinary talent, had effectively been "retraining," and her cultivation had reached Level 36 as well, with the soul skill Teleportation.
Teleportation was cool, and Qin Tian realized that when he broke through to Spirit Master, he needed to be cautious. He truly needed a soul skill like Teleportation or something that allowed flight.
Boom!
At that moment, the sky once again changed dramatically. Recently, these occurrences had become more frequent, and it was said that the Spirit Hall had focused all its military strength on the far north.
The region, once a vast icy plain unsuitable for human cultivation, was now home to many ice-type soul beasts.
Boom!
This time, the sky phenomenon was far more intense than before.
In an instant, Qin Tian saw the heavens twist, with massive spatial rifts opening up, as if they were unbeatable deep abysses.
"Xiao Wu!"
Tang San panicked, immediately running toward the school gates.
It must be Xiao Wu again, sneaking out to eat some candied hawthorn and running off from school.
What was going on? Even though Qin Tian had seen the Douluo World for a long time, he had never encountered such a scene before!
Qin Tian looked up at the spatial rifts in the sky, feeling a chill in his heart.
At that moment, the ground beneath his feet started to shake violently, like an earthquake.
Damn it!
He needed to find a place with open ground!
Immediately, Qin Tian started running toward a grassy area outside the school gates.
His speed was fast, and since he wasn't an ordinary person, he had learned a bit of Ghost Shadow Mysterious Track from Tang San, using his soul power and physical conditioning to move with precision.
Crack!
Just as he reached the grassy area, a blood-colored lightning bolt struck down.
Qin Tian felt a wave of despair. His mind went blank, and he couldn't dodge in time.
Crash?
At that moment, he heard the familiar yet unfamiliar sound of the coffin board unable to hold back.
Qin Tian felt the Bronze Coffin suddenly appear. He didn't even know when he had entered the coffin.
Then, the coffin was suddenly pulled, soaring into the sky, rushing straight into a massive spatial rift.